Adding A Vine To Our Roof Garden

The Brooklyn Botantic Garden Plant Sale kicks-off tonight. Our roof garden is now almost full, so we won’t be hauling as many plants home this year. Still we will have our eyes open for a couple of less-common plants — special plants we can’t easily find at a local garden center or farmer’s market — that will solve specific problems in our garden. This summer, one of our goals is hiding the chimney in our garden with a lush vine crawling up a trellis. While our neighbors have had luck with a wisteria, we’re thinking about either a honeysuckle or a climbing hydrangea.

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We’ve had especially good luck with our Japanese “moonlight” climbing hydrangea; it sticks to our wall more vigorously than our other varieties. I also recommend trumpet vine or the native cross-vine bignonia, which has beautiful orange flowers. I’ve never tried honeysuckle, but our neighbor had mold problems with his.